Loading ...“They’ve Just Taken Leopoldo”: Maduro Detains Opposition Leaders At Gunpoint
The crackdown by Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro – now officially branded a dictator by the U.S. – on political opposition intensified Tuesday when intelligence agents detained opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma at gunpoint in their homes and took them into custody.
The two politicians have been under house arrest for their involvement in anti-government protests and organizing, according to the BBC. Videos published online by family members of both men show them being led away in the middle of the night by agents from Sebin, the Venezuelan intelligence agency. Lopez’s wife Lilian Tintori said in a tweet: “They’ve just taken Leopoldo from the house. We don’t know where he is.” She published grainy footage from the home’s security cameras showing her handcuffed husband being placed in the back of a car.
“If something happens to him, Maduro will be held responsible,” Tintori said, according to Bloomberg.